A Voice From Mwesigye Robert, Zahara Nabakoza , Esther Afolaranmi and Betty Martin-Finneran.
The voices from Africa, and of black communities in the United States, are rising against the fundamentally illegal standards that violate children’s rights in poor regions and recognize the value of using rich children in exploiting poor children.
Children’s Rights Must Not Be Overlooked.
Rejoice Africa Foundation, on behalf of a coalition of organizations, groups, and movements and voiceless from afflicted communities from Africa and India is calling on many United States attorneys generals – under their international law obligations – to reorient the business model in the Coke/Fairlife litigation that treated children of color as deserving exponentially less than white children and hid the harm it was causing them.
That model is costing millions of lives and trillions of dollars.
This violated human rights laws and is equity fraud – it’s using the same fundamentally fraudulent metrics that caused the climate crisis to evade liability for it. This was the biggest cause of the case’s harm, and using that standard did more harm than good.
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It harmed the work of Rejoice Africa Foundation using the Afrocentric model of decentralizing human power and freedom, treating all children as deserving rights, making wealth and governance condition their entitlements and authority on empowering each person.
We championed call for action and reconsideration of the rights of vulnerable children, not ensuring children’s birthrights and instead exploiting inequitable growth did more harm to all of our values than we did to further them. But we still see a troubling imbalance while animal rights gain global attention, yet millions of children suffer in silence and remain neglected. Through our Tell the Truth Campaign, we urge you to acknowledge this injustice and take action.
Children from marginalized communities face poverty, diseases, exploitation, and climate-driven hardship.
They deserve the same level of compassion and advocacy as animals.
Join us in telling the truth: children’s rights must not be overlooked. Let’s work together to create a world where every child has the dignity, protection, health, climate change , food security, and other basic needs they deserve in life.
Read more information in the following document
- A document of call to support FairLife
- A document of law suit against Coca-Cola
- A document of How the climate crisis Affects Black and white communities differently.
- A document of Journey for Justice.
In an upcoming Tell the Truth campaign filing before the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, we will allege U.S. companies and charities are using an illegal standard to define words like “sustainable” and “liberty” benchmarked to enrich the white children of wealthy families here, rather than be truly sustainable and liberating for all children, especially those in Amboseli. The standard is illegal because it allows the use of those terms for practices that violate child welfare, environmental, civil rights, and the law of democracy.
Coke/fair was used on manufactured numbers to get to particular targeted results that are illegal, and we have testimony in Affidavit before the African Union it’s done elsewhere and it’s common but it’s not easy to challenge because also government and companies are busy making these numbers to benefit but people and animals are losing this in the system enriched them to an unsustainable which caused inequality, injustices and emotions. The assessment of equality, humane and ecosystem of the harm was based on high numbers and false pledges.
Victims are suffering from a climate crisis that was not caused as a result of wealthy people hiding from the truth that deepens the vulnerability.
Severe climate related issues that disrupt ecosystems, economies and livelihood. These shocks can be caused by extreme weather changes such as droughts, floods and heat waves which often lead to devastating consequences like food insecurity, displacement, diseases, injustices and poverty.
Vulnerable communities like the global south, climate shock worsen food insecurity, malnutrition and poverty. These impacts are often intensified by global factors including emissions and unsustainable practices from the global north that contribute to harsh climatic changes. The hardships are seen through erratic rainfall, prolonged droughts, diseases and poverty. Global north companies continue to concentrate on wealthy accumulation through doing business that pollutes the environment of innocent people and are affected more compared to the wealthy people.
Harsh climate change impacts the global south causing devastating losses of homes, livelihood and cultural heritage. Many victims face relentless disasters with little support and hence resort to self-denial as a coping mechanism. Reducing emotions becomes a survival strategy in the situation of unacknowledged suffering, systemic neglect and overwhelming reality of an uncertain future. This emotional challenge cannot be bearable therefore victims have heard enough silent cry for justice, equality and urgent climate action but voices have been undermined or not heard because of the top line system.
This self-denial has fueled deep anger among global south victims who bear the brunt of the crisis did not create.
Displacement, food insecurity, diseases and poverty intensifies the frustration especially as the global north continues unsustainable practices with minimal accountability. This anger is not personal, it is a collective, directed at systemic injustices, broken/empty pledges and the failure of global leaders / United Nations to act decisively. Therefore it is a powerful selfless force driving climate activism in demanding reparations while pushing for urgent equitable solutions using Fair Start Movement standards.
Faced with harsh realities of climate changes, few victims in the global south are starting negotiations/bargaining. Victims seek global north to invert, accept climate error, policy change and act as obligations. This emotional response based on victims attempting to secure survival in an unjust system without meaning global actions and fear negotiations remain one sided leaving victims continue struggling for the solutions in the crisis not created by victims.
In the western Uganda, Rejoice Africa Foundation used the Afrocentric model to support the community through Women Care groups, Women Care Groups worked tirelessly to grow kitchen gardens. Cabbages, Carrots, tomatoes, Egg plants and spinach thrived under watchful eyes, providing plant based nutritious vegetable food for the families and sources of micro income for the domestic basic needs in the families.
A growing threat loomed based on plastic pollution where used bottles from Coca-Cola poorly disposed of into the environment and acted as vector hiding breeding areas for mosquitoes and children were sick of malaria and some died of malaria. Then garbage was full of plastic bottles and then washed away by rain into the water sources near and ended affecting aquatic animals like fish, also reduced the volume of water sources and contributed to water contamination.
Climate had also grown unpredictable, Rainfall patterns shifted causing prolonged droughts that wilted the once flourishing kitchen gardens and women struggled to water vegetables in the kitchen gardens but the plastic waste bottles reduced the volume of water and leading to the drying up of near water sources then women had to fetch water for irrigation from long distance 1 kilometer and this reduced the yield of vegetables from kitchen gardens.
And also this drought affected animals. Domestic animals that feed on grass and shrubs and also on water animals could go long distances looking for water and grass, and some animals could die of hunger and water scarcity.
Rejoice Africa Foundation is actively testing community driven solutions using Afrocentric modeling to address the emotional impact of harsh climate change on victims in the global south.
Through public health support, resilience building programs and sustainable initiatives like women led kitchen gardens, Agroforestry, sanitation and hygiene and educational services. Rejoice Africa Foundation strives for saving the next generation from Climate harm, injustices and inequality through bringing hope and empowerment to affected communities.
Together, the women care groups launched a clean-up campaign under Rejoice Africa Foundation to educate others about recycling and holding corporations accountable.
Tell the Truth – Admit – Your benefitting from a system that violated children’s birthrights did more harm to your values and cause than you did to further them. Take action.